The Three-Fifths Compromise Explained: US History Review

The Founding Fathers originally intended to write the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention

• True

• False

The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise) created...

• A new White House

• Bicameral Legislature (2 houses)

• The Presidency

• The Bill of Rights

A census, which is a counting of all the people in the United States, occurs every...

• 20 years

• 10 years

• 5 years

• 3 years

The Three-Fifth's (3/5) Compromise sought to resolve the issue between

• Large states and small states

• House and the Senate

• Northern states and Southern states

• Eastern states and western states

The Three Fifth's Compromise decided that for every 5 slaves, they would count as

• 1 person

• 5 people

• 3 people

• 9 people

It was important to determine how to count slaves because....

• All states wanted to maintain slavery

• Representation for your state in the government was determined by how many free blacks you had in your state

• The bigger your population the more representation/power your state had in government

• Northern states wanted to make sure they knew how many slaves Southern states had